Famous Quotes

Quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
• The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
• The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
• The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
• The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
• There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
• This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
• Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
• To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
• Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.